Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.